Senior Computer Vision Engineer

Obvio

$145K — $175K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in machine learning or computer vision with production model experience
  • Deep experience with object detection and multi-object tracking
  • Strong understanding of common challenges like class imbalance and model validation
  • Experience building training infrastructure for reproducible experiments
  • Proficient in Python and PyTorch with large image/video datasets
  • Experience with model validation on deployed data
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Develop and enhance object-detection and tracking models under real-world conditions
  • Manage data strategy covering sampling and dataset versioning
  • Design experiments to differentiate between real improvements and common pitfalls
  • Create and maintain reproducible training pipelines with tracking and artifact management
  • Define evaluation metrics aligned with product behavior
  • Collaborate with embedded engineers to optimize models for deployment
  • Lead technical direction and mentor engineers in ML best practices

Benefits

  • Impactful work improving road safety
  • Ownership over the model development process
  • Opportunity to work in a small, experienced team
  • Fast-paced startup environment with significant influence
  • Competitive compensation and equity options
Full Job Description
About the Role

Obvio deploys AI-assisted cameras to make streets safer. We're hiring a Senior Computer Vision Engineer to build the models and ML systems behind reliable detection and tracking in real-world traffic environments.

You will own the full model-development loop: data strategy, training, experimentation, evaluation, field validation, and continuous improvement. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role for someone who combines strong applied-ML judgment with the engineering discipline to make experiments reproducible, measurable, and fast.

What You'll Do
  • Develop and improve object-detection and multi-object-tracking models for vehicles, pedestrians, and other road users across challenging real-world conditions.
  • Own data strategy for model quality: sampling, labeling, dataset versioning, hard-negative mining, class imbalance, edge cases, and feedback from deployed systems.
  • Design rigorous experiments and ablations; distinguish real improvements from overfitting, leakage, noisy labels, or gains that do not survive field deployment.
  • Build and evolve reproducible training pipelines with experiment tracking, configuration management, artifact lineage, model registries, metric dashboards, and automated hyperparameter search.
  • Define evaluation that reflects product behavior-not only aggregate metrics-including precision/recall trade-offs, class and scenario slices, calibration and tracking quality.
  • Partner with embedded engineers to optimize models for edge deployment while balancing accuracy, latency, memory & power constraints.
  • Set technical direction, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and raise standards for ML rigor, reproducibility, and production readiness.
What We're Looking For
  • 7+ years in machine learning or computer vision, with a track record of shipping and improving production models.
  • Deep hands-on experience with object detection and multi-object tracking, including modern architectures, data augmentation and evaluation methods.
  • Strong understanding of class imbalance, overfitting, dataset leakage, label noise, domain shift, model calibration, and statistically sound validation.
  • Experience building training infrastructure or platforms that support reproducible experiments, distributed training, hyperparameter search, metric comparison, and model lineage.
  • Strong Python and PyTorch skills, plus practical experience with large image/video datasets.
  • Experience validating models on deployed or field-collected data and owning the loop from failure discovery through retraining and verified improvement.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership across ambiguous, cross-functional work, with clear communication and strong ownership.
Bonus Points
  • Experience with traffic, automotive, robotics, surveillance, or other video-analytics domains.
  • Experience with re-identification, trajectory modeling, occlusion handling, camera calibration, or multi-camera tracking.
  • Experience with active learning, weak supervision, synthetic data, automated labeling, or dataset-quality tooling.
  • Experience optimizing and deploying vision models on NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm Snapdragon, or other edge accelerators.
Why This Role
  • Build computer vision that directly improves road safety.
  • Own the complete path from data and experiments to validated performance in the field.
  • Work with a small, experienced team where senior engineers have real technical influence.


Why Obvio
  • Your work will help save lives and improve road safety
  • Series A of $22M led by Bain Capital
  • Fast-moving startup environment with meaningful ownership
  • Competitive compensation and early-stage equity


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